JOHANNES JOSEPH van ROOD

CURRICULUM VITAE

Date of Birth: April 7, 1926

Nationality: Dutch

Place of Birth: , The

Married : A.M.R. Baronesse van Tuyll van Serooskerken

Children: Three

Home address: Laan van Alkemade, , The Netherlands

Office address: Department of Immunohaematology and Blood Bank, University Hospital, Rijnsburgerweg 10, 2333 AA , The Netherlands

Medical training:

University of Leiden (medicine) 1945 –1952

Department of Medicine (Dr. R.F. Loeb), Presbyterian Hosp., 1950 Columbia University, New York, N.Y., U.S.A

Resident and postgraduate training:

- Department of Medicine, University Hospital, Leiden 1952 – 1957

- Training in blood banking, Central Laboratory of the Dutch Red 1957 Cross Blood Transfusion Service, Amsterdam

- Specialist in Internal Medicine 1957 (equivalent to US Board Examination). In charge of blood Bank and Department of Immunohaematology, University Hospital, Leiden

- Engaged in tissue typing since 1958

- Sabbatical year in the Department of Immunology, 1962 – 1963 Public Health Research Institute of the City of New York, N.Y., U.S.A. (Head: Dr F.L. Adler)

- Doctor of Medicine (cum laude) (equivalent to US PhD. or July 7, 1962 Doctor of Medical Science); thesis: “Leucocyte Grouping. A method and Its Application” (Promotor: Prof. Dr. J. Mulder)

Appointments: - Head of the Department of Immunohaematology since 1957

- Lecturer in Internal Medicine 1965

- Founder and President of the Eurotransplant Foundation 1967

- Professor of Internal Medicine 1969

Advisory Committee Membership, Editorial Board, Etc.

Advisor of the Primate Center TNO, Rijkswijk, The Netherlands

Expert of the working party on the exchange of sera for the determination of histocompatibility” of the Council of Europe (till 1978)

Member of the Consiglio Nazionale di Richerche di Torino, Italy

Member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences (section: Physics, since 1978)

Member of the Advisory Board of Tissue Antigens

Member of the Editorial Board of J. Immunogenetics

Member of the Editorial Bard of Disease Markers

Contributing Editor of Vox Sanguinis (till 1979)

Member of the Advisory Board of Transplantation Proceedings

Member of the Editorial Board of Dialysis & Transplantation

Member of the Editorial Board of Thymus

European Editor of Human Immunology (from 1/9/1982)

Reviewing articles for Biomedicine, Transplantation, etc

Professional Societies:

American Association for the Advancement of Science

American Association of Clinical Histocompatibility Testing

American Association of Immunologists

British Society for Immunology

British Transplantation Society European Society for Clinical Investigation

Honorary member of the Faculty of Medicine & Surgery 1980 of the University of Torino

Honorary Member of the University of Maastricht, The Netherlands 1981

Honorary Member of the Scandinavian Society of Immunology 1980

Honorary Member of l’Université Claude Bernard de Lyon, France 1982

Heberden Oration for the Heberden Society, London 1983

Corresponding Member of the Royal Academy for 1984 Medicine of Belgium, Brussels

Research activities have centered around the following topics:

1. Genetics of histocompatibility antigens 2. Organ and bone marrow transplantation 3. Genetic factors in disease 4. Blood banking 5. Clinical haematology 6. Clinical immunology